Milk-bottle cover



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G'. W. E CKER MILK BOTTLE: COVER Filed June 8. 1921 CLARENCE "W. 0F ILLINOES.

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Application filed June 8, 1921. fierial ."71'0. 475,898.

To all whom it may concern: I the downward swinging movement of the Be it known that CLARENCE W. Eorisn, cap. The cap 1S provided with depending a citizen of the United States of i i meriea ears 18 arranr ed at the outer sides of the residin at Rockford, in he county of Win upstanding arms and having the pivot pin 6 nebago and State of Illinois has invented extended therethrough.

new and useful improvements in Milli-Botit will be obvious that the device may tle Covers, of which the following is a specireadily be applied to a milk bo tle or like fication. receptacle by snapping the clamp arms The object of the invention is to provide around the same to thereby arrange the cap 10 a simple and efficient means designed to in a to serve as an effective clo serve as a temporary cover for mill; bottles sui- 1" ttle, and at the time the and the like which may readily be applied can may readily be displaced to permit of to the bottle when the original cover is disnourin e contents or a portion there-cf placed for protecting the contents of the from the no e said cap being held in its 1 bottle during the progressive use thereof elevated po tion by the spring tongue and which may be manufactured at a relawhich serves under ordinary circumstances tively small cost and may with facility be mamnin the can in its closed position.

maintained in a satisfactory sanitary condi- Having described the invention what is ticn; and with this object in view the invenclaimed as new and useful is 20 tion consists in a construction and c01nbina-- l. A m lk bottle cover having a supporttion oi parts-of which a preferred edllJOdiing; member provided with a clamp for ("nment is shown in the accompanying drawgaging the neck of the bottle, and a spring ing, wherein: actuated cap pivotally mounted upon the Figure 1 is a view of a cap embodying s1 porting member for closing the mouth 26 the invention applied in the operative posiof the receptacle, said supporting member tion to a milk bottle, the cap being shown having upstanding bearing arms projecting in its closed position. above the plane of the clamp and an inter Figure 2 is a side view. mediate tongue said arms being bent to Figure 3 is an elevational view to show form bearings for the pivot pin oi the cover, the joint and means of mounting the ca and the tongue being arranged in contact Figure 4 is a detail view of the blank with the res. edge oi the cover for locking forming the supporting member. it in its adjusted positions.

The device consists essentially of a sup- 2. A milk bottle cover having support porting member 10 having the vertical bar in "nember provided with a clamp for enelcments 11 carrying a yielding clamp 12 gaging the neck of the bottle, and a spring of which the arms are disposed to encircle actuated cap pivotally mounted upon the the neck of the bottle indicated l3, and supporting member for closing the mouth a cap 14: pivotally mounted upon an upward of the receptacle, said supporting member extension of the bar above the plane of the having upstand bearing arms projecting clamp said extension being slitted to form above the plane of the clamp and an inter spaced bearing arms 14; for supporting the mediate tongue said being bent to pivot 15 of the cap, and an intermediate cap form bearings tor the pivot pin of the actuating tongue 16 for contact with. the cover, and said arms also having' upstandrear edge or the cap to yieldingly hold S3013 gg l mg the closing in either its closed or open position. The g 'f 01' the cape upper tr iti f th b ri arms are in testimony whereof he affixes his sigfurther slitted to provide inwardly projectnatureing fingers 17 which serve as stops to limit CLARENCE V1 EQKER, 

